Dennis Cooper, Stephen King, Stephen Elliot, Alison Tyler, Susie Bright, Nikki Magennis, Gwen Masters, Richard Labonte, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Chelsea Girl, Sera Gamble, Jimi Hendrix, Sylvia Plath, Oscar Wilde, Timothy J. Lambert, James Dean, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Anne Sexton, Martin Luther King, Paul McCartney, Marilyn Monroe, and my son's grandmother on his dad's side.
Stone Temple Pilots, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Cheap Trick, Blondie, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Nirvana, The Bee Gees, Soundgarden, Extreme, Duran Duran, Electric Six, Ringside, INXS, Sisters of Mercy, Aretha Franklin, The Doors, White Town, and The Cult.
United States of Leland, The Education of Shelby Knox, Shortbus, The Lover, Mysterious Skin, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, King Kong, Lost Boys, Sixteen Candles, Casablanca, Some Like It Hot, Crash, Secretary, Fright Night, Legends of the Fall, Hate Crime, Notes on a Scandel, Revenge, Basketball Diaries, Wilde, Nine-and-a-Half Weeks, Wallstreet, The Departed, Boogie Nights, Life As a House, Kalifornia, Girl, The Ring, Half Nelson, and Y T Mama Tambien.
The X Files, Seinfeld, Supernatural, and THE WIRE.
The Lover, My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up, Cannery Row, Lolita, Catcher in the Rye, In the Cut, Swimming Sweet Arrow, Best American Erotica 1995, Cowboys Are My Weakness, The Blue Bedspread, American Psycho, Heaven's Coast, Picture of Dorian Gray, The Outsiders, Herotica 4, All Quiet On the Western Front, 1984, Jesus's Son, Mysterious Skin, Sarah, House on Mango Street, most anything by Dennis Cooper, most anything by Stephen King, lots of stuff by Joyce Carol Oates and Anne Rice, Sera Gamble's stories, and lots of well written erotica by people like Sera Gamble, Arden Hill, Shanna Germain, Marcy Sheiner, Shaun Levin, Sonja Kindley, and Tom Caffrey.
My son; my grandmother; my former boss; Susie Bright.